Let's go Modern - who was the best fighter in each of the 9 modern divisions?

It's interesting to consider how many of the top fighters in these divisions would get into say a top 15 of the respective original weightclass that the division spawned from.

Chang, Holyfield, Arguello, Roy Jones jr, maybe Chavez at lightweight...some of the 115 guys at Bantam could sneak in depending on criteria.

Not many really.

 

Hearns at welter?

 

Both Mike and Terry beat that maricon Griffith like nothing.

 

hearns 154 work would count towards his 160 rating in this case.

 

Ah, fair enough. Can't really make a case for him being a top 15 middle to be honest.

 

I think Griffith is a better fighter than Hearns or McCallum and on par with Leonard. At 154 however Griffith only fought when already past prime and I don't think this version of Griffith would beat Hearns or McCallum.

 

I like these picks.

 

Pac at 140?

 

Pac was mightily impressive in his fight at 140, but was it more impressive than Pryor's all-round performance in the 1st Arguello fight, taking the standard of opposition into account? Not for me.

Then take into account the standard of Pryor's other performances at the weight, and I think you'd have to go with him over Pac at that weight. JMO.

 

I thought it was less about the opposition and more about how much of a fighting machine they are at that weight. Sure more opposition further proves how consistent and great a fighter is at that weight... but it doesn't take much imagination to know how much of a badass Pac would be at 140, especially considering his destruction of Hatton.

I think Pryor proved more at the weight, but Pac could be an honorable mention at the least.

 

Love that nomination.

 

Holyfield- easy but would should you include Marciano,young louis,Dempsey etc in this?


Jones- Calzaghe has a good resume but hth he would have loss to Jones and Toney at SM.

Hearns- but you could make a strong case for Mccallum and even Terry Norris although HTH id pick a few over Norris, Delahoya? Trinidad?

Chavez- Easy Pryor is second but Chavez has the best resume and Hth i like him over Pryor, Tszyu good resume but HTH he would lose to a few guys.

CHavez,Arguello,Mayweather- 3 way tie IMO

Gomez- Has this hands down. Barrera,Morales and Fenech are not exactly for sure wins HTH matchup.

Tapia- Galaxy is real close.

Chang- only by a hair Chiquita,Carbajal and Yuh are pretty close

Lopez - Hands down as easy as the Holyfield pick

 

I concur heartily Sir :good

 

What about Locche, Cervantes, Benitez, Ross, Canzoneri, even Berg? I would pick most of them over Tszyu and quite a few to beat Pryor and Chavez.

 

Canzoneri and Ross resume wasnt as big as Chavez at this weight. Besides in a HTH neither of them could beat Chavez. Berg was a forgotten great to some but Chavez would handle him:yep My mistake i should have mentioned Cervantes who i think HTH would have beaten Tszyu.

I just shouldnt have mentioned Tszyu cause you could throw other guys into the mix like you did, but his resume at JW is impressive enough to be mentioned.

Oh yeah i forgot about Locche HTH i think he would be a real tough fight for JC but JC resume takes it here.